An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5' ends of adenovirus 2 messenger RNA.

Cell, 12, 1-8, 1977.

Discovery of introns.

In 1993 Roberts shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip A. Sharp  "for their discoveries of split genes." It was frequently suggested that Chow deserved a share of that prize. The normally inappropriate word "amazing" in the title of this paper was allowed in this particular instance by the editors of the journal Cell because of the exceptional nature of the discovery. Order of authorship in the original paper: Chow, Gelinas, Broker, Roberts.

See also: Gelinas and Roberts, "One predominant 5--undecanucleotide in adenovirus 2 late messenger RNAs," Cell, 11 (1977) 533-544.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , VIROLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1900 - 1999
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